Demonic and Demidivine Beauty in the Eyes of Demidivine and Demonic Beholders: Making Hanumat Disbelieve and Duryodhana Misbelieve through (A-)Purusarthic Assembling-Hall Aesthetics in the Ramayana and Mahabharata
The Ramayana and Mahabharata highlight the demidivine simian Hanumat and the part-demon prince Duryodhana differently experiencing their political enemies’ assembling halls as aesthetic and theological objects alike. Hanumat is seduced figuratively by the sensual pleasures of the personal hall (sala...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2022, Volume: 16, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 137-157 |
| Further subjects: | B
Śaiva
B Hindu theology B aesthetic philosophy B Sectarianism B Sanskrit epics B Vaiṣṇava |
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